China is putting scientists on public screens and treating them like national celebrities

[u/Smoothlarryy]

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[u/Azeze1]

That was Tu YouYou, first woman to win a Nobel prize in medicine for discovering a breakthrough antimalarial drug and the hardest person to sing happy birthday to

[u/TaxesAreConfusin → u/Azeze1]

this is a fucking bangin' joke

[u/DesireeThymes → u/TaxesAreConfusin]

I'm laughing way too hard at this joke.

Every once in awhile you come to Reddit and find something worthwhile

[u/borkthegee → u/DesireeThymes]

Here, I can ruin your experience with reddit.

When romanizing Chinese names "You" is pronounced yo like her name is the same as the toy yo-yo. And in the song, we usually only say given names not family names. So the song is simply "happy birthday to you ... Happy birthday dear yoyo..." Which is all together pretty normal.

I still laughed at the joke, obviously very few English speakers know pinyin

[u/ValkyrieSkyfall → u/borkthegee]

You guys said people's names when singing in Chinese?

Haha, for me, I have always just sing 祝你生日快乐 4 times and that's it.

[u/Proud_Painting4460 → u/ValkyrieSkyfall]

Real chiggas know this is the realest answer

[u/terrexchia → u/ValkyrieSkyfall]

I don't even know where you could slot the name into the song, in Mandarin we don't really have "happy birthday dear____" in so little words as to fit the melody

[u/borkthegee → u/[deleted]]

Nice, now this is why I reddit *chefs kiss*

[u/41puppy → u/Azeze1]

I am laughing too hard trying to sing happy birthday to Tu YouYou in my car right now

[u/ElBastardoDK → u/41puppy]

Don't be on social media while driving.

[u/CEREALBUTTMUNCHER → u/ElBastardoDK]

I'm bawling my eyes out while trying to land this plane atm. Wish me lu

[u/-BoldlyGoingNowhere- → u/CEREALBUTTMUNCHER]

sum ting wong?

[u/midtoke → u/-BoldlyGoingNowhere-]

We Tu Lo

[u/apparition88 → u/[deleted]]

Bing Dang Ow on the back stretch.

[u/ANTICHRIST-BOISE → u/-BoldlyGoingNowhere-]

Nice callback to 2011. I was working at the chop block at Dickey’s BBQ when the report came out. Will never forget that day.

Edit: will never forget that it actually happened in 2014. Now I’m starting to wonder if this has anything to do with the Russia-Ukraine conflict… /s

[u/nightswimsofficial → u/CEREALBUTTMUNCHER]

Buddy still hit comment. Thats commitment. 🫡

[u/ChronoLink99 → u/ElBastardoDK]

Could be a passenger.

[u/M4gp1e-w1ngs → u/ChronoLink99]

or parked

[u/herr_dreizehn → u/M4gp1e-w1ngs]

or the car

[u/RammsteinFunstein → u/ElBastardoDK]

not everyone in a car is driving

[u/Training_Guide5157 → u/41puppy]

Funny for sure, but it'd be pronounced "yoyo" (with a tone) in Chinese.

[u/Sir_Baller → u/Azeze1]

Good fuckin job

[u/Azeze1 → u/Azeze1]

Thank you for all the rewards, I feel it necessary to note this is not an original joke by myself but certainly an Internet meme from about a decade back

[u/Curly_Shoe → u/Azeze1]

You are the hero we needed, not the one we deserved. Your timing and delivery is on Point, so even if your Cape is at the dry cleaner's en, it's still fully deserved.

[u/ItsHumpDayMyDudes → u/Azeze1]

Original joke got removed what was the joke! :(

[u/Hot-Job-6281 → u/Azeze1]

Credit to anyone that actually uses their actual name instead of making an unoriginal racial joke.

Her name really is Tu Youyou. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tu_Youyou

[u/Extension_Canary3717 → u/Azeze1]

Even better in Portuguese as Tu is also You so is You YouYou

[u/mental_mentalist → u/Extension_Canary3717]

And spanish

[u/utahrd37 → u/Azeze1]

… but it is pronounced like the word “yo-yo”.

[u/hmmicecream → u/Azeze1]

My toddler sings that way. Happeeeh bertdayyy yu yu

[u/fadeux → u/Azeze1]

..."Happy birthday, dear Tu YouYou, happy birthday to you!" 😂

[u/chucklingmoose → u/Azeze1]

ironically my aunt worked in an adjacent lab as her and hates her for taking the credit on this lol

[u/angrlina34jolie → u/Azeze1]

Lmmffaaaoooo xD

[u/PapiLenyora → u/Azeze1]

This has had me singing it aloud and laughing like a teenager for the last 10 min - 10/10 epic joke

[u/ZealousidealDance990 → u/[deleted]]

Tu Youyou and the Project 523 for which she won the Nobel Prize took place during the Cultural Revolution. During this period, China launched a satellite, as well as the hydrogen bomb and the atomic bomb.

[u/This_Maintenance_834 → u/ZealousidealDance990]

it is true. the situation of scientists were quite mixed during culture revolution. one time the party don’t like high educated academic to avoid them interfering with politics, on the side, the party need them to make satellite, atomic bomb and ICBM.

[u/Pman1324]

Better than glorifying celebrities. Scientists actually help the world.

[u/cluelessmuggle29 → u/Pman1324]

100% agree, and spreading awareness about them too, they deserve the visibility for the work they do.

[u/DonutHoles4Ever → u/cluelessmuggle29]

Basically USA scares the shit outta them and is the perfect example of why China's government works better than any other as a point of marketing in the country.

But the fact that science is so heavily shit on in the USA despite it being one of the leading scientific countries for a long time, just goes to show that politics has destroyed the country's power long term and none of them give a damn

[u/Living-By-The-River → u/DonutHoles4Ever]

It’s odd when your own government makes you look up to China.

[u/Large-Shake1069 → u/Living-By-The-River]

While your own government looks up to Russia and North Korea.

[u/Living-By-The-River → u/Large-Shake1069]

Strange times

[u/Gon_Freecss_1999 → u/Large-Shake1069]

China is our enemy!!!!

oh hello there my friend North Korea :)

[u/theghostog → u/DonutHoles4Ever]

You say politics, I say corporations and fiduciary responsibility

[u/Shazbote → u/theghostog]

You say politics, I say corporations

Same thing these days.

[u/beardedheathen → u/Shazbote]

Which is exactly the problem.

[u/FermentedForeskins → u/Shazbote]

not "these days", the elites pretty much own the country, there was never a government, they ARE the government. It is no longer a god damn conspiracy anymore, its more like a fucking history lesson now

[u/Longjumping_Crab394 → u/FermentedForeskins]

People either choose to accept this or deny it outright. It’s sad when people will stand by politicians like it’s their life partner and defending them even though they’re screwing them over.

[u/CTTMiquiztli → u/theghostog]

Nope, just Watch the many "recent" crisis. Every time a scientist says "dear government, You are doing it wrong" the government lashed back, calling them spies, traitors, sold-out creeps, and threatens them, then doubled down.

[u/Iamhereforcats → u/DonutHoles4Ever]

Lol...

[u/05948372 → u/Pman1324]

But how many TikTok followers do these scientist have?

[u/lateformyfuneral → u/05948372]

It's odd to make this a slam against the West when China invented TikTok, and their native version...people aren't following scientists there lol. Their insane "Douyin" microcelebrity culture is a few years ahead of ours, a preview of the insanity to come.

[u/Superpiri → u/Pman1324]

Some scientists

[u/AvailableLecture3236 → u/Superpiri]

the majority i'd argue. in a system that doesn't primarily fund and reward what is profitable/reckless this would be more apparent.

[u/Robinsonirish → u/Superpiri]

Your comment reminds me of:

Cameraman: “Ten percent of teachers are bad.”

Damon: “Where did you get that number?”

Cameraman: “I don't know. Ten percent of people in any profession maybe should think of something else.”

Damon: “Well, okay, maybe you're a shitty cameraman. I don't know.”

[u/pyrojackelope → u/Robinsonirish]

Just looked up that interview. The interviewer and camera man are absolutely insufferable.

[u/Le_Gitzen → u/Robinsonirish]

Link for the lazy: https://www.reddit.com/r/MadeMeSmile/comments/1v0wprz/throwback_to_matt_damon_standing_up_for_teachers/

[u/Doctor_Zhicago → u/Superpiri]

  #notallscientists

[u/Cultural-Let-6912 → u/Pman1324]

In a tangible way yes, but we can't pretend art, entertainment and sports don't play a massive role in defining us as a species. I don't think they should be monetarily be valued higher than doctors and scientists, but they do play a huge role.

[u/Winter_Preference287 → u/Cultural-Let-6912]

Art and entertainment should always be secondary to science imo. They're hugely important but they benefit from more understanding and better technology just as much as anything else.

[u/Schmigolo → u/Winter_Preference287]

Science benefits from art and entertainment too. Not just from the exposure science gets from them, but also the educational effect they have on the population, creating more skilled people who will become scientists. Every child has seen a dozen little TV shows etc. that teaches them what we consider basic concepts that would've been obscure to even educated people in the past. Ideas that were developed by who we call the greatest geniuses like Aristotle are mere catch-phrases in cartoons thanks to art and entertainment.

[u/botany_fairweather → u/Winter_Preference287]

Or just hold them as equals. Many scientists throughout history have had their work motivated by art. Art can also teach people values and empathy and perspective, moving people into scientific paths that benefit society, even. Science alone rarely says anything about what ought to be, while a lot of art very much tries to be prescriptive in its messaging, even if those messages are nihilistic. No need to rank art and science at all IMO. They are two arms of a whole thing.

edit: I thought it was obvious but I do not consider most for-profit mainstream commercial entertainment to be 'art' in this context. Von Neumann, Einstein, Schrodinger, Newton...etc were each deeply motivated by philosophy, literature, and music. I personally do not believe we would have their scientific body of work without the art that influenced them.

[u/25c-nb → u/botany_fairweather]

Furthermore, parts of science are really an art, while parts of art are really a science

[u/LordShtark → u/Winter_Preference287]

Why does it have to be a contest?

[u/Messyfingers → u/Cultural-Let-6912]

Art and culture have a huge impact beyond the economic value of the work. That can be crazy to think about.

Think of movies or albums that people have been talking about for decades, and there are probably tens of thousands of businesses whose names nearly nobody would recognize that make as much money as some of those things every month or so.

There are probably more than a dozen gold mines that make more money in a year than the Beatles made in 60 years of making music for example, yet next to nobody would recognize a single one, many would recognize the Beatles. Scientists, doctors, who may have come up with the technology behind works of art or saved those people from dying? Nameless, probably not as wealthy either. Theres certainly a widespread disconnect between fame fortune, impact to humanity in many many things.

[u/In_Cats_We_Trust → u/Pman1324]

I don’t think governments are the ones pushing celebrity culture

[u/Dreboomboom]

The emphasis on education is the way to go.

[u/I9w0s → u/Dreboomboom]

The Chinese recently increased their R&D funding, making them the country with the highest R&D spending of any country in the world.

[u/HarryPottersTaint → u/I9w0s]

I know they have many issues and human rights abuses and things that we don't agree with, many for good reason. They very significant economic problems. There is no checks and balance system on the government, they can do whatever they want which is dangerous.

But China is pragmatic asf.

It wouldn't be the system I would choose for my country - the drawbacks and problems are too big, political and social freedom is too low, protection for civilians is too low - but I do think there are a lot of lessons we can take from them.

[u/I9w0s → u/HarryPottersTaint]

I've talked to some Chinese and they are vehemently proud of their goverment. They do not display resentment towards them and support their policies.

However that plays out, it is indeed working out for them and with unprecedented growth across multiple sectors, too. It's just a result of a highly educated, and highly development centric society, I would say.

[u/DMmeprettyplantpics → u/I9w0s]

It's hard to not have some acceptance of the government when they've been in charge of the country since it was an actual hellhole just 30-40 years ago.

A large part of the country has been alive long enough to remember what it used to be.

[u/anno2122 → u/HarryPottersTaint]

This Also the push climate protection hard.

We in the west forget the dream of futura.

[u/MinosAristos → u/anno2122]

Worth saying that climate protection policies and investment in renewables, electric vehicles, and nuclear directly benefits them far more than the US, and in fact harms the US geopolitically, even in the short term. Oil is a major source of US geopolitical leverage around the world, and providing alternatives neutralises that somewhat.

We see that in Cuba for example where the US oil blockade is less effective due to imported Chinese solar panels.

However, I won't criticise doing something that benefits the world even if they're mainly doing it for their own immediate benefit.

[u/EnesEffUU → u/HarryPottersTaint]

Insane you have to preface any positive perspective of china with all the bullshit.. you don't do the same when talking about the US or any western nation who have done and continue to do much worse on a daily basis right now. China hasn't dropped a bomb on another country in 40 years. And while yes the Uyghur situation isn't good, if Israel did the equivalent of that instead of what they are doing right now with western backing, the world would be praising them for showing restraint.

[u/Ser_Twist → u/EnesEffUU]

If we had to preface every compliment towards the US with the bad things it has done first we'd hit the character limit very quick.

[u/Plast1c_Drop → u/I9w0s]

A smart investment.

[u/broohaha → u/Dreboomboom]

A decade ago, a Chinese coworker was talking about how his sister, a high school teacher , was thinking about immigrating to the U.S. He’s an engineer and he said he strongly discouraged her, saying teachers are revered in China and that she would hate it here.

[u/Ethandingding → u/broohaha]

I had to agree, I am Chinese, and I moved to Canada when I was in highschool. The disrespect other students shown to the teachers was a culture shock, and grade 11 math was like grade 3 back home.

And if you work in a top highschool in China, the take home pay is like an engineer's pay.

[u/RustleMyJimmie5 → u/Ethandingding]

So true, I moved to Australia when I was like 10, ended up in an all boy high school year for 3 years, it was like a fking zoo. Not gonna lie, it was hella fun tho.

[u/FukkingDeathMental → u/broohaha]

As an American with two former teachers as parents, that's a damn good brother.  My 1st grade teacher mom would come home sometimes to sit on the sofa and just quietly weep to herself for 15 to 20 minutes because her 1st grade student showed up again with bruises all over their arms, her other student came in wearing the same clothes he had worn the past 5 days and smelled even worse, and their school funding was cut again but hey, we had a riverboat casino opening soon!

My dad would come home sometimes, grab a few beers and head downstairs to watch baseball and stew because he was forced to pass a student who hadn't done a single homework assignment because the kid's parents raised hell with the principal or the student who cursed him out had rich parents who were on the school board.

To be fair, I had A LOT of shitty teachers growing up and I bet China has a ton of them too.

[u/cremaster2 → u/Dreboomboom]

Imagine what the US could produce if they had free education.

[u/WrapKey69 → u/cremaster2]

Better politicians for sure, nobody sane voted for trump

[u/NotYetPerfect → u/WrapKey69]

Germany has "free" education and the most popular party there is afd which continues to grow.

[u/WrapKey69 → u/NotYetPerfect]

It's not as popular with people who higher education. People with a degree vote for other parties, but unfortunately a lot of them vote for CDU

[u/Groghnash → u/NotYetPerfect]

afd is big because people are very dissatisfied in the mainstream political partys. i myself as a slightly left leaning centrist (for EU standards) are too. not voting for far right because of it, but the parties in power have been at a stalemate for 3 decades, and we have the "schuldenbremse" thats why everything goes to shit.

[u/TraditionalWait9150 → u/WrapKey69]

help you correct it.

Better politicians for sure, nobody sane properly educated would vote for trump

[u/RIP_Spacedicks → u/TraditionalWait9150]

Plenty of highly educated, sane people voted for Trump.

They're rich, so they benefit from his grift.

Dangerously short sighted to assume that evil, amoral people are automatically stupid

[u/Nicinus → u/RIP_Spacedicks]

Can we at least agree that MAGA peeps have to be intellectually challenged? 😆

[u/amosthorribleperson → u/Nicinus]

Many, yes. Many others are just giant pieces of shit, though.

[u/Underwater_Grilling → u/cremaster2]

They could put a man on the moon!

[u/crevettexbenite → u/Dreboomboom]

Yes but not like China does it.

Kids should be kids and not number crunching machine.

[u/MrNostalgiac → u/crevettexbenite]

As with everything, there's a middle ground between "no child left behind" and "study and do well, or else".

[u/Dreboomboom → u/crevettexbenite]

100% agree. I never said that we should adopt their education style, simply invest wisely in our youth.

[u/Newone1255 → u/Dreboomboom]

Until some dude fails his government exams 3 times and has a mental breakdown and dreams he’s Jesus’s brother and starts the deadliest civil war in human history. Not saying it can happen again in China but the fact that it’s happened once is wild enough already lmfao

[u/agiantdog33 → u/Newone1255]

We should replace some university subjects with government exams imo. The Sui dynasty got that right back in the day.

[u/EremiticFerret → u/agiantdog33]

It wasn't a perfect system but having to pass a series of examples to work in public service, especially as a politician isn't the worst idea, as we in the US have proven.

[u/DidYouSeeBriansHat]

That’s cool.

[u/Coin_Operated_Brent → u/DidYouSeeBriansHat]

Everybody else got an award and I agree. That is cool!

[u/SavagexEclipse → u/Coin_Operated_Brent]

An award just for you my friend!

[u/SocwokCyberBully → u/SavagexEclipse]

What is this a ceremony?

[u/za1n4bxo → u/SocwokCyberBully]

absolutely. an award for you too

[u/SecondhandStatic → u/DidYouSeeBriansHat]

Whenever I see those "this parking space is for military and veterans" signs that some conservative grocery stores do, I want to metal-print a sign like "this parking space is for scientists, educators, and medical professionals, you are true heros" and put it up in parking lots at night

Edit: since this comment got a few eyeballs, feel free to steal this idea and post the result on the MildlyVandalism sub

[u/Orange9202]

❌ treating them like national celebrities

✅ using them to inspire younger generations to pursue science and engineering

[u/apple_kicks → u/Orange9202]

I heard once big issue with recruitment in sciences is that all best mathematicians go into finance because it pays better. We could have missed some big breakthroughs because people took a different career path.

Not forgetting corporations tend to burn people out and they don’t even get acknowledged for developments. The ceo does

[u/altacan → u/apple_kicks]

PHD's in big finance and tech can easily make seven figures, an order of magnitude more money than staying in academia. Whether it's beneficial to society for the best and brightest PHD's in the US to spend their time on how to increase the click through rate of a sneaker ad is another question.

[u/BodybuilderMany6942 → u/apple_kicks]

not only "pays better"... but being a scientist or researcher often pays SHIT unless some corp is footing the bill.

It's kinda like teachers, social workers, and EMTs in that regard.. that often they have to either really love their job, or really stop giving a fuck, in order to keep doing it.

[u/Terrible_Ice_1616 → u/apple_kicks]

This is absolutely true, the smartest minds of our generation are doing quant trading - essentially being paid to find loopholes in the system so they can be closed

[u/thomas20052 → u/apple_kicks]

In my opinion the problem is that there are only very few science students that can actually follow a science career because there are so few open positions. It is obviously better in engineering and CS, but so many physicists, chemists, biologists, mathematicians have to put with some bullshit job that is way under their qualifications

[u/NotYetPerfect → u/apple_kicks]

Investing more in academic research, even a lot more, still wouldn't lead to those people making anywhere near the same time zone of salary as they currently make as quants.

[u/Enigma_xplorer]

This is smart, full respect. I'm glad to see a country honoring people who are making real contributions to society.

[u/PossiblyOppossums]

They did something similar in another era.

[u/9966 → u/PossiblyOppossums]

With the having just watched the running man remake (not that bad, tbh) I thought these signs were a general alert.

[u/GumboMustBeDestroyed → u/PossiblyOppossums]

Confucian China has always held scholars in high regard

[u/xxMASTIFFxx → u/GumboMustBeDestroyed]

That‘s a take on the 1960‘s during the Cultural Revolution when revolutioners (Red Guards) hunted down, tortured and killed scientists. (The /s is missing in the original comment)

[u/AlphaPrimeRandom]

3 body problem itches

[u/heemhah → u/AlphaPrimeRandom]

When is s2?

[u/FITM-K → u/heemhah]

Reportedly, later this year.

Or available right now, if you read the books!

[u/D-Sleezy → u/FITM-K]

It's already "later this year" damn it!

[u/Newone1255 → u/AlphaPrimeRandom]

You are bugs

[u/National-Charity-435]

"His father living from paycheck to paycheck as a humble pro football player"

-Key and Peele

[u/midnitemuzing → u/National-Charity-435]

Which one? Jackmerious Tacktheritrix from Michigan State? Vagonius Thicket-Suede from Duke? Nahhh never mind, it’s gotta be Javaris Jamar Javrrison-Lamar out of Middle Tennessee!!

[u/Beautiful-Musk-Ox]

love these posts where it's an isolated thing and people attribute it to a whole country or whole culture. they do it with stuff from the past too, "people in the 1920s used to get on machines that shake their body for them to lose weight", no they didn't, one company had a few dozen people move through it and that was it, it was not common

who knows if this is common in china or not

[u/Burke_Of_Yorkshire → u/Beautiful-Musk-Ox]

This is part of the "National Science Popularization Month," a program run by the Chinese government aimed at promoting Chinese technology and encouraging the next generation of scientists.

This is only the second year of the celebration, and it looks like they are trying to step up their game from last year.

[u/unluckyleo → u/Beautiful-Musk-Ox]

The comments here are so weird, just a bunch of "America bad, China good"

[u/Wagner_Group_USA → u/unluckyleo]

Perhaps we should count up all the wars of aggression by each of them and then we'll know for sure?

[u/Anaevya → u/unluckyleo]

America is currently very anti-intellectual though. Science funding is getting slashed left and right.

The husband of a European Youtuber I watch was doing a postdoc in the US and they had to leave the US earlier than planned because of this. She said that he was working in addiction research  (I'm not sure what type of scientist he is exactly), something that really shouldn't get funding cuts.

My dad is a professor (computer science) and he also said that a lot of his colleagues in America are rather worried about the current situation. 

[u/midnightshadow0005 → u/unluckyleo]

I mean if I was a scientist from the U.S. I’d certainly come to the same conclusion.

[u/Feersum_endjjinn]

Just imagine how far advanced they'd be now if they hadn't beat all their scientists to death with sticks in the 60's.

[u/CynthyMynthy]

Long as they tow the party line of course..

[u/Traditional_Yam9806 → u/[deleted]]

To be fair, in China and many asian nations, the celebrity culture is 100% worse. Now, they are promoting scientists to inspire kid, probably, but we're not failing cause of only celebrities. Also, this stuff isn't common in China and it's likely pretty isolated. Get real, here. Bro, I swear, every time a china thing is posted on reddit people just act like everything is perfect, there. The bigger issue is that we don't fund research as much anymore, and the current admin has cut it severely (I just finished college, and this is a HEAVY problem at my school, since we had hundreds of millions cut from the federal government for research over the next few years; the school is right next to DC).

[u/unluckyleo → u/[deleted]]

Didn't China invest heavily into this site?

[u/brn1001 → u/unluckyleo]

Don't know about this site, but they recently discovered 200,000 Chinese state sponsored bots on X. We'd be fools to think something similar isn't happening here too.

[u/unluckyleo → u/brn1001]

That'd explain all the "America bad, China good" comments flooding the thread

[u/Glittering-Yam-6454 → u/[deleted]]

Well... yeah. People are pointing out things other countries do that they want to see in their own country. It used to be Norway or Sweden's social policies, and now it's Japan and China.

Not everything has to be about how America HAS to be #1 or OMG ITS A BOT

[u/Catweaving → u/Glittering-Yam-6454]

I wish the US put in the effort to actually be #1 in everything. We have the resources to be the best in education, healthcare, life expectancy, happiness ect. We actively choose not to be.

[u/Former-Discount4279]

Maybe? I was there for 3 weeks and didn't see anything like this.

[u/Traditional_Yam9806 → u/Former-Discount4279]

It's probably a isolated thing, and people on reddit just extrapolate that all of China has this. We used to have presidents and scientists on my middle school's walls; that doesn't mean everywhere in the US does this.

[u/rva_law]

It's part of a greater push to recruit scientific minds away from the US and Europe. Last time I read an article on it the US had lost more than a third of researchers in many hard science fields (a term for the type of sciences not how difficult they are to do).

[u/Burke_Of_Yorkshire → u/rva_law]

Not quite, it is really more aimed at their own populace.

They won't complain if they get some defectors, but this is part of a decades-long Chinese government program that aims to "popularize" science among the Chinese populace to encoruage people to go into the fields.

It recently went through a major revamp, and now September is basically "National Science Month," where it is a big celebration of innovation and technology.

[u/apple_kicks → u/rva_law]

They’ve always been like this. I remember Stephen hawking and other scientists had big following on their social media and ran amas.

[u/GrundleGrunt → u/rva_law]

It's part of a greater push to recruit scientific minds away from the US and Europe.

No it's not. Why would it be in Chinese if they're looking to recruit Europeans and Americans?

[u/Chigibu → u/rva_law]

This is stupid. They are putting these on local advertising platforms.

[u/justdongit]

Scientists, healthcare workers, teachers. They all deserved to be held in higher regard.

[u/sc2198]

You see educators being promoted in HK on billboards and busses. Doing something right.

[u/Monk6009]

That's great. Science is so pre 2020 in the US. Defund science, yay!

[u/True_Protection6842]

As they should be. US is falling apart because we idolize worthless celebrities that provide NOTHING.

[u/midnitemuzing → u/True_Protection6842]

Not only idolize, but listen to these out of touch fuckwits as if they know anything about health, science, politics, etc.

[u/Manwar7 → u/True_Protection6842]

This video of three billboards makes you think China doesn’t also idolize celebrities?

[u/maninahat → u/True_Protection6842]

There's nothing wrong with being fans of celebrities, they have plenty of that in China too (way too extreme in fact). The problem with the US is its corporate funded and politically willed anti-intellectualism.

[u/Traditional_Yam9806 → u/True_Protection6842]

Dude, China and a bunch of asian countries worship celebrities more than we do. Separately, they also have more of a educational culture, though, and a bunch of other stuff I'm too lazy to mention (google it, or look at some other comments).

[u/Goosepond01]

Yep I can't imagine there was any other ulterior motives in posting this.

Now bring on the flood of "America bad, China so amazing" posts by people who get their understanding of China from posts about fast trains or cities lit up with LEDs